UPDATE: Three more businesses receive tentative pot shop approval

April 20 is the traditional day for cannabis celebrations, and 4:20 p.m. as a time to toke up, owing to marijuana mythology but it took on a special significance Friday because it's the first 4/20 when sales and use of recreational marijuana was legal in California.
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Synergy, one of the businesses announced Wednesday, will be operated by Jamie Garzot, who already owns 530 Cannabis in Shasta Lake.

"I was over the moon when my proposal was approved," Garzot said.

She's tentatively planning a Sept. 1 opening at 345 Hemsted Drive where there's a 25-space parking lot. Garzot is working on making building improvements and will need a building permit, a city business license and state license.

"There's a lot of pieces to this puzzle," she said Wednesday.

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Three businesses that want to open retail marijuana shops in Redding have made it passed the first round.

The Green Door, Hype Cannabis Co. and Bryant Wellness Partners Inc. were selected by a panel of city of Redding officials in the first stage of the cannabis licensing process.

Those businesses now move to the next step in the application process, which will be handled by the city's Development Services Department. The city's application fee is $5,000 while the license fee is $27,900. After that, successful applicants still need to obtain a state license that costs $36,000.

"This evaluative process has taken longer than we originally anticipated, but I feel like we have done our best to select quality candidates to open retail businesses in the city," Redding City Manager Barry Tippin said.

The city could announce additional approvals in the next few weeks, Tippin said.

The city's pot panel evaluated a total of 18 applications for cannabis business licenses. Officials previously said no more than 10 licenses would be approved.